Saturday, 10/13/12
Jesus said those who hear the word of God and observe it are
blessed. His statement was brought
on by a woman in the crowd crying out, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and
the breasts at which you nursed.” Her words implied that it was the family
Jesus came from that made him such a worthy person. In his saying no to that,
Jesus was putting aside the attitudes of tribal-minded people who saw some
families as good, and others as bad.
Instead, he was saying that each of us will be judged to be either
blessed or evil on our own merits. He went on to lay down two requirements for
anyone to be blessed in God’s eyes. The first requirement is that one hears the
Word God, the second is that one observes that word of God.
As to the first, how does one hear the word of God? His word
does not come as an audible voice the way God’s voice was said to have come to
the boy Samuel as he lay sleeping at the shrine in Shiloh. No, it comes to one
through the words of the Bible and the words of one’s elders. But it often
happens that we hear conflicting directives from them, and that leaves us uncertain.
That often happens, and when it does, we must seek his voice through earnest
prayer.
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